Class of 1892. Willie D. Johnson. ~ ~ ~ ~ DEATH OF WILLIE D. JOHNSON: Will you please publish the following for the satisfaction of the father, relatives, friends and acquaintances of the late Willie D. Johnson, who, as was stated in your publication of July 27th [1892], from the effects of a bite from a coyote received the night of the 3rd of June, an account of which has been previously given. The article referred to says "and on July 8th" expired, after having experienced all the frightful sufferings attendant on that most dreadful of all maladies. The date of his passing away is correct; the remainder of the quotation is somewhat inaccurate. It has been stated by those who have witnessed several cases before that this was of the shortest duration, and lacked some of the more horrible features of hydrophobia that they had ever seen or read of. Willie told us that on awakening on the morning of the 7th of July he felt "quite miserable," and had never felt so queer before. At breakfast he tried to drink, but could not swallow water. Being on the range some twelve or fourteen miles from home, after stock, he was obliged to ride and drive cattle that distance. Riding through water first caused indescribable feelings of melancholy to come over him. He soon became very thirsty, but could not drink. Arriving home about 4 p.m. he was nearly choked for want of a drink, but could not swallow. He then took to his bed. His companion, who was with him all day, knew nothing of his being unwell. He seemed to realize the cause and final outcome of his sickness, yet exercised much faith in the laying on of hands by the Elders for the healing of the sick. He seemed to suffer only occasionally from an obstruction of some kind in the throat, and from thirst. We now sent a messenger after the father, who was absent, and could not possibly reach home before about noon of the 9th inst., although every arrangement was made to speed him on his way. On the morning of the 8th Willie appeared much better, and by drawing water through a straw he managed to swallow some. We felt quite hopeful of his recovery. He occasionally said something in a jocular way, or laughed at something spoken by those around him. He so continued until about half-past three p.m., when he began to feel very bad. This was due to the obstruction in the throat. He made efforts to force this up and spit it out, but he grew gradually worse, until his sufferings at times seemed unbearable. When occasionally he became easier, he would beg of us not to hold him here by our faith, but to let him go. About a quarter-past-seven o'clock, all hope of his recovery being gone, we felt to ask the Lord to be merciful, and, if He designed, to take the sufferer to Himself, to release him from pain. Therefore all present were asked to unite in prayer to this end, which they did, and received immediate answer; for ere the prayer was ended Willie ceased his struggles and lay perfectly calm and quiet until eight o'clock, when he passed away without a struggle. All felt that the Lord had indeed been merciful and kind. Willie did not lose consciousness until he ceased to suffer. We had the sympathy of the entire community, and many were there to witness it. I hope I may never witness such a scene again. The father did not arrive until about 3 p.m. on the 9th, worn and weary with travel and the great strain of mind. It was a heartrending scene, witnessed by numbers of sympathizing friends -- an almost heartbroken father gazing upon the lifeless form of a beloved son. Who can realize the feelings of the bereaved parent? No one but those who have passed through the same trial, surrounded with the same train of circumstances. The funeral took place at the meeting house and was largely attended. Discourses were delivered by Elders J. A. Little, Chas. Richens, and J. H. James. The longest procession of vehicles I have witnessed in this land followed the remains to their last resting place. ~ ~ Willie Derby Johnson was the eldest child of W. Derby Johnson, Jr., and Lucy Annie Salisbury Johnson. The latter was one of God's noblest women. She departed this life on the 26th of April, 1885, under distressing circumstances, during the absence of her husband in Mexico. Willie was born September 20, 1870, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The same fall his parents moved to Southern Utah, where he remained until the fall of 1885. Since then he has lived in Mexico. For the past two years he has attended the Brigham Young Academy at Provo, and returned home in May [1892]. He was a young man of promise, was popular among the young people of his acquaintance, and a great comfort to his father. He expected to go upon a mission the coming fall. He was preparing himself for it, and felt glad to be considered worthy. During his sickness he exhibited the utmost faith in the principles of the Gospel. We feel that there was work for him on the other side of the veil, and that his mother needed his help; for he said she came to him and told him he must come to her, as she needed him. Some of our young people made the remark after Willie had gone to rest, that it was the greatest testimony they had ever received of the efficacy of prayer to see how suddenly he was relieved of pain, by the blessing of God. Brother I. W. Peirce lost an infant son the same day. The services were held conjointly, and the same vehicle conveyed both bodies to the graves. May the comforting Spirit of the Lord rest upon the bereaved. ~ ~ E. W. Johnson, Colonia Diaz, Mexico, July 31, 1892. [Deseret News, August 13, 1892.]

Class of 1892? Faculty & Staff. Louise Keller, Training School, 1895-1896. Louise Keller appears in a photograph held by the BYU Archives purporting to be "the first class to graduate from the new Academy Building, 1892." (UAP 2 Folder 037)

Brigham Young Academy High School Class of 1892? Mary C. Lewis. She was born on March 21, 1874, in Spanish Fork, Utah. Daughter of Fredrick Lewis Sr. and Agnes R. Ferguson. Mary married Joseph Markham, BYA HS Class of 1886? on January 25, 1899, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mary attended Brigham Young Academy and received a teaching [normal] certificate. Before marriage she taught school in Sanpete County and south Utah County. After her marriage she taught in Provo City schools for a number of years. She was active in civic and church affairs in all auxiliary organizations. In 1966, she was 92 years of age, still active and very much interested in life. Her three children all attended BYH: Joseph Aldus Markham, BYH Class of 1918; Fred L. Markham, BYH Class of 1919; and Lucille Markham Thorne, BYH Class of 1925. Source: The Sons of Brigham by T. Earl Pardoe, 1969.

BY Academy High School Class of 1890, & 1892? Benjamin F. Luke, Elocution. Source: Utah Enquirer, May 23, 1890. ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1892. Benjamin Luke. Listed as a Junior in the 1891 Normal Commencement Program. Source: Commencement Program of the Normal Class of 1891 on May 21, 1891.

Brigham Young Academy High School "Commercial College" Class of 1892. Herman Martin. "Mr. Herman Martin also received a certificate as the first graduate of the Commercial College." [at age 21]. Source: Provo Daily Enquirer, May 20, 1892. [This certificate is considered a high school document, since all subsequent graduates from the "Commercial College" without bachelor's degrees were high school graduates.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Herman Martin was a banker in Provo in the 1890s [cashier at the First National Bank in Provo, later a member of the Provo banking firm of Schwazer and Martin.] and early 1900s. He was a member of the Garden City Lodge 10 of the Knights of Pythias. ~ ~ ~ ~ News Article, February 1901: Romance ~ Two Prominent Provo People Married. The last act to a romance of no mean proportions or interest was performed and the curtain rung down on a matrimonial drama which almost merged into comedy and tragedy, when Justice of the Peace Thomas Champneys performed the marriage ceremony which bound together Herman S. Martin and Miss Daisy Moore of Provo late Saturday afternoon in this city [Ogden]. Martin is a young man of good business ability. He became engaged in the banking business at Provo with Rodney Swazey about [18]92 or [18]93 and shortly after was married to [Edith Beck, on September 12, 1894 in Provo] the daughter of Josiah Beck, a prominent jeweler of Provo. His newly made wife was an accomplished and prepossessing young lady and for a time their matrimonial bark sailed over smooth seas with a warm sun shining above and apparently nothing but fair weather ahead. Before long, however, his wife began to be jealous and looked with considerable suspicion upon the actions of her husband on account of his remaining away from home until a late hour in the night. She accused him of infidelity and charged Miss Moore, who was then a teacher in the public schools, as the co-respondent. This of course, Mr Martin denied, and claimed that the business at the bank was the cause of his being up late. Not to be put off and satisfied by any such excuse, she resolved to find out and so one evening she secreted herself where she would be able to see her husband leave the bank in case he might be in there. After a lengthy wait, and during the small hours, her watch was rewarded by seeing her hubby and Miss Moore emerge with stealthy step. Then a scene ensued in which the blonde locks of Miss Moore were made the object of attention, and after a sharp and determined conflict the little wife declared herself the winner, and marched the banker home. Proceedings for divorce were instituted on the part of the wife during the pending of which she met her rival on the street where another encounter took place in which parasols were freely used. The complaint in the case made such charges against Miss Moore that the school board decreed that an investigation of her alleged acts should be made. This was had and she was exonerated, but later resigned her position. A decree was granted by stipulation to the plaintiff after a considerable length of time, and shortly after the ex-Mrs. Martin went to Berlin to complete her musical education. Being free to wed again, the banker waited until interest in the matter subsided and then had the ceremony performed which made Miss Moore Mrs Martin No. 2. [Ogden Standard Examiner, February 11, 1901.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Daisy S. Moore was born on July 3, 1874 in Provo, Utah. Her parents were Stephen Bliss Moore and Eleanor Roseltha Colton Moore. Daisy Moore Martin died on September 27, 1963. ~ ~ ~ ~ A woman named Daisy Moore Martin received a B.A. Degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, approved by the University Senate October 6, 1919, and apparently awarded in November 1919. A photograph of Daisy Moore Martin appears in the 1920 Illio [University of Illinois yearbook]. ~ ~ ~ ~ Note: Despite the divorce, Edith Beck continued to use the surname Martin, including 1916, when her mother, Mrs. Josiah Beck, visited her daughter in Carbon County. [News Advocate Carbon County News Newspaper, News Advocate, October 12, 1916.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Herman S. Martin appears to have been born in April 1871 in California [El Dorado?]. His parents: Simon Bolivar Martin (b. West Virginia in 1829) and Mary Ann Swasey (b. Woodstock, New Hampshire in 1838), and married about 1850. They appear to have moved to El Dorado, California.

Brigham Young High School Class of 1892, and Collegiate Class of 1896, also Faculty & Staff. Irene B. Mendenhall appears in a photograph held by the BYU Archives purporting to be "the first class to graduate from the new Academy Building, 1892." (UAP 2 Folder 037) ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy Collegiate Class of 1896. Irene B. Mendenall of Springville, Utah. Graduated May 1896 with Bachelor of Pedagogy (B.Pd.). She served as President of the Normal Class of 1896. Source 1: Deseret News, May 30, 1896. Source 2: Graduation Program 1896. Source 3: Students Record of Class Standings B. Y. Academy, Book 1, page 8. ~ ~ ~ ~ Faculty & Staff. Irene Mendenhall, Training School, 1892-1894. She appears in a photo of the first faculty to serve under Principal Benjamin Cluff in 1892. ~ ~ ~ ~ Irena Boyer Mendenhall was born on December 13, 1871 in Springville, Utah. Her parents were Richard Lovell Mendenhall and Mariah Catherine Boyer Mendenhall. Irena married Joseph Jensen on December 23, 1896 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joseph Jensen was born on December 5, 1867 in St. Charles, Bear Lake County, Idaho. Irena was a housewife. Irena Jensen died on June 11, 1953 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Class of 1892? Frank Olsen appears in a photograph held by the BYU Archives purporting to be "the first class to graduate from the new Academy Building, 1892." (UAP 2 Folder 037)

Class of 1892? Levi S. Peterson was born in 1874 in Lehi, Utah. His parents, immigrants from Sweden, named him Joseph after the founder of Mormonism. He passed a bucolic childhood in Lehi and graduated from Brigham Young Academy with the equivalent of a modern high school diploma. He married Amanda Andelin, also of Swedish descent, and they became the parents of six children. In 1898, he was called on a church teaching mission to establish a high school curriculum in a stake academy in Snowflake, Arizona. In September of that year, he traveled via the Union Pacific from Provo to Barstow and there caught the Santa Fe for Holbrook, Arizona, the seat of Navajo County. He was conveyed by wagon to Snowflake, thirty miles south. Amanda waited several months for the birth of their first child before she followed. On the thirty mile trek to Snowflake, they passed through only one village, Woodruff, where lived a six-year-old girl who would become his second wife. His road was no more than a wagon track. There were no power lines, no pavements, no billboards, no service stations. Cattle grazed the juniper-covered hills, and it's possible he saw cowboys from the large Hashknife cattle outfit. There were no fences, and the animals of lesser owners mingled with those of the Hashknife outfit on an open range where private and public lands were indistinguishable. In time he came over a final hill and there was Snowflake, an oasis of eighty or ninety houses, mostly of simple pioneer construction. Nearby were fields, green with late crops or yellow with harvested stubble, and beyond them, the verdant, tree-lined course of Silver Creek. Levi Peterson found a place to board and took up the duties of principal and teacher at the academy. Assisted by other teachers, he instituted the first year of high school for a group of young people ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-one. It appears he was instantly popular, having a natural dignity and eloquence and an intuitive moral harmony with a frontier town thirsty for the cultivated graces. From the beginning they called him Professor Peterson and would go on doing so throughout his life, despite the fact that he would take a number of furloughs from teaching. Even now, fifty years after his death, I meet people in Snowflake who still call him Professor Peterson. Not long before Peterson's arrival, the American Indians of the region had become reservation dwellers and wards of the U.S. government, and their primitive culture had already begun to show signs of receding. The majority of them still lived in wickiups, hogans, and rough stone pueblo houses of prehistoric pattern. They hunted, gathered berries and seeds, and practiced primitive agriculture, yet they had also begun to raise sheep and cattle and to depend on rations distributed through governmental agencies. They practiced both traditional and newly learned handicraft, silver smithing, rug weaving, basket making, pottery making, kachina carving, boot and saddle making, and so on. They bought ready-made clothes from traders or sewed colorful shirts, blouses, and skirts from velvet and calico acquired from the same source. Professor Peterson wanted to become an anthropologist. He attended his first Hopi snake dance in August 1899, at either Walpi on First Mesa or Mishongnovi on Second Mesa, where it is known that snake dances were held that year. He traveled by wagon in the company of Homer Bushman, a part-time Mormon missionary to the Indians. This was the first of many times Peterson crossed the Painted Desert. Peterson's interest in anthropology led him, when the term of his teaching mission ended in the spring of 1903, to leave Snowflake and enter the University of California at Berkeley. In 1903 Berkeley was a small, beautiful city uncorrupted by the congestion that makes the Bay Area so unpleasant today. Peterson enrolled in classes during the summer and fall of 1903 and the spring and summer of 1904. His courses included history, English, French, Spanish, German, education, philosophy, botany, mineralogy, geology, and anthropology. His principal instructor and academic adviser was an assistant professor, Alfred L. Kroeber, fresh from Columbia with a Ph.D. taken under a luminary of American anthropology, Franz Boas. Among the earliest excavators retained by Kroeber was Professor Peterson, who engaged in extensive digging in northern Arizona following his unplanned return to that arid region. Early during the fall session of 1904, Peterson withdrew from a full schedule of courses, citing ill health in his petition to the university for honorable dismissal. He and Amanda made plans to return, not to Arizona, but to Utah. On the eve of their departure came a telegram from the stake president in Snowflake, asking Peterson to resume his post as principal and teacher in the academy. So they returned to northern Arizona, abandoning forever all notion of living elsewhere. The summers of 1906, 1907, and 1908 found Professor Peterson excavating prehistoric ruins along the creeks and dry washes of central Navajo County and shipping artifacts and skeletons to Kroeber in California. He surveyed ruins over an area extending as far north as Winslow and as far south as Showlow, concentrating within about a ten-mile radius of Snowflake. The map he drew shows some 40 ruins of varying size and importance, of which he excavated 10. Most of the ruins were near water courses that are now dry and perhaps were intermittent even in the period of occupancy, since primitive agriculture favored sandy wash bottoms which tend to hold subsurface moisture late into the summer. Fallen walls, stoneware, and pottery shards made the ruins easy to find. An array of petroglyphs decorated nearby sandstone cliffs. In 1909, supposing his health would be better if he abandoned the schoolroom and went into ranching, Peterson moved his family onto a homestead at Lakeside, a hamlet situated in a pine forest a mile or two north of the Mogollon Rim. Ironically, the next year finances forced him to return to the classroom, and each weekend for the following four years, until the homestead had been proved up, he commuted the thirty miles between Lakeside and Snowflake on the back of a trotting horse. Once the homestead was secure, Peterson ran for county school superintendent and was elected. He bought a used Model T, and for six years, the family now complete with six children spent winters either in Snowflake or Holbrook and returned each summer to the ranch at Lakeside. Then in August, 1919, came the stunning blow of Amanda's death from typhoid. The next winter Peterson collapsed with the flu and lay prostrate for months in a rented room in Snowflake. The next summer he returned to the ranch, and for a year he and his six children, three of whom were young adults, lived a hand-to-mouth existence on such produce as the stony soil of the ranch offered. Then Peterson was elected to the office of county supervisor and began to correspond with another young lady, who had two daughters by a previous marriage. They married in August of 1924, she at thirty-one and he at fifty. Setting out bravely with an instant family composed of his three younger children and her two, they quickly added five more sons. In 1924 Peterson returned to the classroom in what was now a public high school. His subject was English, rather than the science and math he had formerly taught, and under the stimulus of the grand masters of English and American literature, he underwent a personal renaissance in the humanities, discovering that he himself had some flair for poetry. Conceding to his second wife's wish to live in Snowflake, he deeded the ranch at Lakeside to Amanda's children, and he and his new wife bought a fifty-acre farm near Snowflake. He lived to farm it for only a few years after his retirement from teaching, for he died of cancer in June, 1943. At his funeral, a male quartet sang "The Teacher's Work Is Done," a Mormon hymn first sung at the funeral of Karl G. Maeser, the former president of Brigham Young Academy who had recommended Peterson's call to Arizona. Levi Peterson had taught a total of thirty years, and, that's how people would remember him, as a teacher, a formal medium for the rapid transfer of the rudiments of Euro-American culture to ever new generations of the young and uninformed.

BY Academy High School Class of 1890 & 1892. George Powelson, Bookkeeping. Source: Utah Enquirer, May 23, 1890. Class of 1892: George Powelson appears in a photograph held by the BYU Archives purporting to be "the first class to graduate from the new Academy Building, 1892." (UAP 2 Folder 037) ~ ~ ~ ~ Powel George Powelson was born on January 26, 1868 in Goshen, Utah. His parents were Poul Madsen and Janet Gourley. He married Mary Caroline Davis on July 19, 1893 in Provo, Utah. He died on April 24, 1929 in Provo, Utah. Interment, Provo, Utah. ~ ~ ~ ~ Powel George Powelson [George, BYA High School Class of 1890 and 1892] and Mary Caroline Davis Powelson had twelve children, including: Elma Janet Powelson Thatcher [BYH Class of 1913], born November 16, 1894 in Provo, died September 1, 1976 in Provo; Loran George Powelson [BYH Class of 1916], born December 9, 1896 in Provo, died March 17, 1972 in Salt Lake City; Donnel Earl Powelson, born January 13, 1899 in Provo, died on December 19, 1986 in Salt Lake City; Arlon Marion (Marion) Powelson [BYH Classes of 1919 and 1920], born October 11, 1901 in Provo, died October 29, 1977 in Salt Lake City; Stanford Paul Powelson [BYH Class of 1922], born April 8, 1904 in Provo, died on December 2, 1965 in Salt Lake City; Dorothy Powelson (Thomas O.) Moore, born January 12, 1909, died June 17, 1997, of Mission Viejo, California; Verl Davis Powelson, born August 23, 1911 in Provo, died on April 10, 1954 in Provo; Fred Davis Powelson, born October 26, 1919 in Provo, died ___ in Orem; Bert Powelson; Lael Powelson Creer, Orem, Utah; and Dr. Keith Davis Powelson, Tarzana, California.

BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1892? Nora Redfield. Listed as a Junior in the 1891 Normal Commencement Program. Source: Commencement Program of the Normal Class of 1891 on May 21, 1891.

BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1892. George Robison. Listed as a Junior in the 1891 Normal Commencement Program. Source: Commencement Program of the Normal Class of 1891 on May 21, 1891. ~ ~ ~ ~ Class of 1892: G. E. Robinson [actually George Robison] (male) appears in a photograph held by the BYU Archives purporting to be "the first class to graduate from the new Academy Building, 1892." (UAP 2 Folder 037) ~ ~ ~ ~ George Edgar Robison, was born August 3, 1869 in Fillmore, Utah. His parents were Joseph Vickery Robison and Martha Jane Olmstead. He married Ella Deseret Smoot on May 25, 1892 in Provo, Utah. He died on February 10, 1926. ~ ~ ~ ~ His son, Dr. Arnold Edgar Robison, Sr., graduated from BYH in the Class of 1913.

BYA Class of 1892 ~ Honorary. Rose May Robison. Rose May Robison Hinckley was born on August 21, 1871 in Fillmore, Utah. In 1892 she married Arza Alonzo Hinckley, BYA Class of 1892. She died on December 13, 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1892? Bent Rolfson. Listed as a Junior in the 1891 Normal Commencement Program. Source: Commencement Program of the Normal Class of 1891 on May 21, 1891.

BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1892? James Smith. Listed as a Junior in the 1891 Normal Commencement Program. Source: Commencement Program of the Normal Class of 1891 on May 21, 1891.

Class of 1892 ~ Honorary. Edward Franklin Stevens was born on November 14,1874, in Holden, Millard County, Utah, the first son of Edward Stevens and Mettie Johanna Stephenson. As a child, he went to school and was known as something of a cowboy. He attended Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, to study Commerce. His cousin David described him as being very bashful around girls, and said he did not mix well with them while in Provo. Despite this shyness, however, he quickly became interested in a girl from Scipio, named Emma Maud(e) Robins, who often came to Holden to visit her uncle who lived there. At age 21, Edward left Utah on June 25, 1895 to serve in the Southern States Mission, which included Alabama and Mississippi, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was one of the first younger men to be called to serve a mission, as most missionaries had previously been older men. He served for 38 months. Soon after he returned home to Utah he married Emma Robins, who had waited for him while he served his mission. They were married in the LDS Salt Lake Temple on September 14, 1898. Together they had eight children. Edward took a position teaching school in Holden with a salary of $45 a month. During the summers he farmed with his father, and in 1915, his father divided his farm land among his three sons, and Edward received the southern portion of Whitebush Farm. He also served as Justice of the Peace for several years, as well as serving as president of the first town board of Holden, along with many other positions within the town. His health began to fail him after he contracted a severe disease that affected the Whitebush cattle herd in the winter of 1943-1944. Edward Stevens died on April 27, 1944.

BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1892? Emanuel Thomas. Listed as a Junior in the 1891 Normal Commencement Program. Source: Commencement Program of the Normal Class of 1891 on May 21, 1891.

BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1892? Eva Thorn. Listed as a Junior in the 1891 Normal Commencement Program. Source: Commencement Program of the Normal Class of 1891 on May 21, 1891.

BY Academy High School Normal Class of 1892? and BY Academy Collegiate Class of 1894. Weston Vernon. He wrote an original class song for Commencement 1891, which was set to music by Professor H. C. Giles. Listed as a Junior in the 1891 Normal Commencement Program. Source: Commencement Program of the Normal Class of 1891 on May 21, 1891. Did he graduate from BYA high school in 1892? ~ ~ ~ ~ BY Academy Collegiate Class of 1894. Weston Vernon. He received the degree, Bachelor of Pedagogy (B. Pd.) on May 24, 1894. Source: Ogden Standard Examiner, May 26, 1894. ~ ~ ~ ~ Weston Vernon became a teacher of English literature, and head of the English Department at Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah. He later became a faculty member at the AC - the Utah State Agricultural College. He was a Democrat, as served as a delegate to the 1924 Democratic National Convention. ~ ~ ~ ~ His parents lived most of their lives in Kentucky, and father William came to Utah in his old age. In Kentucky they were noted for always opening their home to the missionaries. ~ ~ ~ ~ Peter Weston Vernon was born on February 24, 1873 in Racoon Fork, Blaine, Kentucky. His parents were William Vernon and Cinthia Moody Vernon. Weston married Frances "Fanny" Farnes Maughan on November 23, 1898 in Logan, Utah. Weston Vernon (Sr.) died on March 1, 1941 in Logan, Utah.